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The aim of this article is to capture the basic knowledge pertaining to the general theory of onomastics and explain the two dimensions of onomastic abstraction: a) advanced abstraction of individual elements pertaining to proper names as a class, and b) onomastics as a “whole”, as an even more advanced type of abstraction. An aerial view of the subject is presented. Theoretical research of onomastics...
The aim of the article is to determine the place of cultural names in the typology of urbanyms and to provide a description of the evolution of both the term and its scope. The observations presented here are based on the analysis of urbanyms carried out from the 60s until modern times. Then, the author discusses various definitions of cultural names that can be found in the subject-related literature...
The aim of the article, which examines issues related to the methodology of anthroponymic research, is the linguistic analysis of personal names of well-known historical and contemporary figures: the ethnonym Lech, the name Dąbrówka, the surnames Mickiewicz, Słowacki, Palikot and Wojtyła. This analysis is intended to verify the existing naming etymologies. In determining the genesis of each analysed...
The aim of the article is to present the current understanding of the term topographic names in relation to Polish urban names, especially street names. The material for analysis has been extracted from numerous linguistic works published during the period between the 1960s and the second decade of the 21st century. Topographical names were introduced to Polish linguistics by Witold Taszycki, who...
The paper discusses the way the two-name anthroponymic system was formed – the original one-name system (first name) evolved into the two-name system (first name + byname) and later, the three-name system was established (first name + hereditary byname + functional element of the unofficial name). In the period when the byname became hereditary and was transferred to the following generation, it turned...
Professional determinations represent a classic naming strategy. Even today many surnames recall those that were medieval professions such as the caligarius. Moreover, this anthroponym it is a nickname with special status; in fact, it indicates the role actually played by the individual within his community, rather than being a sort of individual characteristic appellation such as baldness or stature,...
The aim of the article is to propose the preparation of a list of Polish onomastics terms, which will be published online. Reference is made here to many works that draw attention to the need to organize and unify Polish onomastic terminology. It presents current ideas for solving this important issue, e.g. the assumptions of the dictionary of onomastic terminology by Zofia Abramowicz and Leonarda...
The aim of this article is to continue the discussion on issues related to onomastic terminology, the necessity of its harmonization and normalization (concept → term). An approximate stock of anthroponomastic terms, as well as the preliminary concept of a dictionary development of terms, were indicated as part of the project “Polish onomastic terminology”. In selected examples, synonymy, the variation...
Selected assumptions of cognitive methodology were used in various works for anthroponymy analysis. This methodology, which is a research perspective, does not constitute a coherent theory. In order to determine the importance of onyms, the basic theses of the aforementioned methodology, i.e. the thesis of embodied cognition, the thesis of constructing meaning as conceptualization and the thesis of...
The paper presents a review of the development of works in the Slavic area on onomastic terminology which constitute an integral part of Slavic onomastic studies on a local and global scale. The research method includes comparative analyses and assessment of the impact of historical and present Slavic onomastic terminology. The question of the study underlines the position that Slavic (Czech, Slovak,...
The article presents the evolution of Polish toponomastic terminology – terms and concepts related to the study of geographical names. The material documenting the development of the terms comes from selected, significant monographs and articles related to the toponymy published after World War II. The developmental tendencies, range of toponomastic terms and their initial hierarchic-thematic system...
Celem artykułu jest syntetyczne omówienie metody analizy dyskursu w perspektywie onomastycznej. W naszym ujęciu nazwy własne to nie tylko znaki językowe – to również konstrukty społeczne, często silnie zideologizowane, wchodzące w rozliczne relacje tekstowe i dyskursywne. Nazwy tak pojmowane odgrywają często kluczową rolę w (re)konstruowaniu rzeczywistości społecznej. Dzięki takiej orientacji metodologicznej...
The text aims to present the way Slovak onomastics developed using the concepts and terminology pertaining to onomastic paradigms and paradigmatic types of onomastics. A combination of abstraction and synthetic approach was used to determine the following types of onomastics: historical-etymological type of onomastics focusing on etymology mainly in the historical context; structuralist/system-linguistics...
The article discusses the types of onymic units – urbanonyms, vikonyms, hortensionyms, which, being used in naming of topographical features within the boundaries of settlements, have yet to be terminologically standardized; it is stressed that concrete implementation of these types of onym is characterized by a number of special features which are detected at different language levels. It is suggested...
The article deals with the etymological analysis of the mythonym Ockopirmus found in the Yatvigian Book. The etiology of the mythologeme is justified by the diversification of the authentic and innovative (i.e., late) ethno-mythological features predetermined by the convergence process. In summing up the results of the examination of the mythonym Ockopirmus, the following main conclusion is proposed:...
The paper examines the given names of people born in Nakło (south-east Krajna region) between 1874 and 1875. The anthroponymic material was extracted from the records of the Civil Registry Office of Nakło Miasto. The sources mentioned were written in German. In this paper, proper names of Catholics, Evangelic and Jewish people are analysed, with special focus on their etymology, frequency, and polyonymy...
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